ben174

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   by ben174 9y ago

   Can you go into more detail? Or provide a link explaining this?
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   by ben174 9y ago

   I think the mysteriousness is part of the marketing. Makes them seem more obscure and thus desirable to some.
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   by ben174 9y ago

   Possibly due to far fewer ad blockers on iOS devices compared to desktop and Android. Also, the demographic of iOS users might be more likely to buy things. Just speculating.
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   by ben174 9y ago

   Also the incredible number of "new seller" listings with suspiciously low prices. And the seller description is * PLEASE EMAIL X Y Z (at) gmail dot com *. Which of course is an address which replies with instructions on how to
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   by ben174 9y ago

   ISO-8601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
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   by ben174 9y ago

   Normalization alone wouldn't always work. Highly compressed songs sound louder than a very dynamic sound. Even with both are normalized.
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   by ben174 9y ago

   Looks like all the packages by this guy post to hacktask.net - a Chinese site. Google autocomplete also suggests xss.hacktask.net Looks like this guy is up to all kinds of no good.
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   by ben174 9y ago

   I remember reading somewhere that these results would make it easier to determine when the next iPhone was launching. I wonder what the outcome is there.
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   by ben174 9y ago

   Source: https://github.com/ben174/bart-crime BART has their crime reports in an email list which you must be approved for. I started this project to automatically scrape, normalize, and publish those emails to a public
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    Exposing the BART crime reports they have chosen to stop publishing(bartcrimes.com)

    3 points by ben174 9y ago|1 comments
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    by ben174 9y ago

    I've just started using Mailinator's API for a project ( https://www.bartcrimes.com ) and have to say it's very slick. The pricing is a bit too high for my needs (simple open source project, no profit), but otherwis
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    by ben174 9y ago

    These reports are scraped from the daily email list - which you must be approved to subscribe to. Also: https://twitter.com/bart_crimes
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    Show HN: A site which publishes the BART crime data they've stopped publishing(bartcrimes.com)

    7 points by ben174 9y ago|3 comments
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    by ben174 9y ago

    > let's say Windows is gone tomorrow one can dream
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    by ben174 9y ago

    This happens so often to me. I'll be expecting a package one day and 8pm rolls around and I check the order status and it says 'expected delivery: tomorrow' - when I was sure the delivery was today at the time I placed the
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    by ben174 9y ago

    This is Verizon Wireless.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Apple really got this right with the W1 chip and the new iCloud pairing. BeatsX, AirPods, and Beats Solo 3 just work across all your devices.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/887452176716529664 "We are currently experiencing some minor service outages."
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Down for me on Caltrain
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Yep, getting 500's from the web UI.
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    Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi(stackoverflow.com)

    52 points by ben174 9y ago|6 comments
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    by ben174 9y ago

    I was also surprised to see how quickly this one dropped off the front page. It was up for maybe 10 minutes, gaining very quick momentum, and then suddenly disappeared.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Indeed. Just sharing my experience with them.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    I interviewed with BetterWorks last year for four rounds of onsite interviews. This is in addition to a couple rounds of phone interviews and a quite extensive homework assignment. Everything seemed to be going well, but they ultimately
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    by ben174 9y ago

    I'm going to have such a hangover in the morning.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    date +%s To see current time
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Thank you. I was going crazy trying to think of what the contents of that 42 bytes would have been.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    I get off at Civic Center and it's astonishing how many used syringes I see on the ground by the escalators. Those needle tips are extremely dangerous and could be life changing if you happened to get punctured by one.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    Ah, I believe the content was removed when I first clicked. Looks like it's back now.
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    by ben174 9y ago

    For those who had never heard of it before, the Google cached copy is still up: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zFONMls...